11. Searchbar given a Search History dropdown Menu, in addition to the Firefox 2, 'Search Suggestions' feature.

12. New Preview picture, based on 'Bamboo' by Robert N. Oddy, which is also seen in the Downloads window.

13. Sidebar now resizes from 40 pixels wide to 800 pixels.

14. Mail button added for use in Firefox 1.5 versions and, later, will be available for Mail type extensions in Firefox 2.

* Important Note** Due to the complexity of the Firefox 2 theme code now, when this version is used in Firefox 1.5, the tab appearance has had to be slightly changed. There is also an issue with the first tab used. - until a full fix in place, please use TWO homepages! Odd, but it works!...or use Tab Mix Plus extension....or upgrade to Firefox 2....or, if that's too much trouble, just don't use this theme.

Hi, as some know, Aluminium Kai was also one of my favourites, before I started making themes. Rather than just updating the original for FF2, which is not what I 'do', haha, I took this opportunity to breathe some new life into it for the 'next generation' of users.

Of course, the difficulty that I had, unlike a brand new theme, was to do these changes in exactly the right places, in a way that wouldn't disappoint existing Aluminium Kai users.

We shall see.

1) The "New Tab" and "List All Tabs" buttons are a bit disjoint: the former 'floats' above the bottom of the tab bar, the latter is 'embedded' into the bottom.

I remade and repositioned the Alltabs button ("List All Tabs") as, er, I could see it! I've not seen a New Tab button on the tab bar, which is why it didn't get done, haha. I imagine that you are using an extension to do this - let me know which one and I can fix.

2) The search-field (area in which typed text is visible) is about 1.5cm shorter than the search box, so there's a blank area on the right-hand side before the dropdown arrow.

This was fine for Firefox 2, but I had to haul the code around a fair bit, to get the back compatibility for FF1.5 and that must have been when it broke there. Easily fixed - added to bug list.

3) The white text-colour for disabled context-menu items is quite hard on the eyes. A mid-grey (like the default theme) would probably work better here.

1) The "New Tab" and "List All Tabs" buttons are a bit disjoint: the former 'floats' above the bottom of the tab bar, the latter is 'embedded' into the bottom.

I remade and repositioned the Alltabs button ("List All Tabs") as, er, I could see it! I've not seen a New Tab button on the tab bar, which is why it didn't get done, haha. I imagine that you are using an extension to do this - let me know which one and I can fix.

My bad! It's been present so long I forgot it wasn't part of the base install! It's from Tabbrowser Preferences. It has an appropriately-themed graphic: is that somehow a remnant from the old version, or is it in your version unwittingly?

This is nicely done and has a very nice 'striking' look to it without being 'gawdy'. The background graphics, the nicely-shadowed icons and the tabs have very nice visual flow between them.

My only problem is that the top menu black text has a tendency to "wash out" in the first 1/3 of the very top row .... maybe a slightly lighter text color there? Outside of that, a "first-rate" job!

I may try this one for a while

Many thanks for your kind words.

Tricky decision on the Menu items. I put the text in white on the statusbar, where I felt it was essential that it could be read there. I chose black text for the menu parts as I felt that it looked right and people sort of knew what they were. However, in the next update, a lighter text colour for the hover states, I think.

I'm explaining this, as people quite often ask me how I decide things in my themes.

Your own problem, however, is easily solved, just put the code below into your userChrome.css BELOW the namespace, Save and Restart Firefox :

Hey Frank, I am really enjoying your new version of Aluminium Kai 2! And I'm having a ball customizing things here and there (I feel like I have a new toy, LOL). I am customizing this theme to fit my favorite NFL football teams colors. Is there an easy way to change the statusbar text color? And while I'm at it, is there an easy way to change the menu popup text color?

Thanks in advance!

<b>EDIT: solved!</b>

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Only two things wrong with an otherwise great theme:
1) You get a focus rectangle when clicking the close button on a tab
2) The status bar you get at the bottom when doing a page refresh does not format well or is not centered.

cenonmin wrote:1) You get a focus rectangle when clicking the close button on a tab2) The status bar you get at the bottom when doing a page refresh does not format well or is not centered.

#1. This maybe related to an extension that you are using as I and others are not seeing this in Firefox 1.5 or 2.0. Please post a picture of your problem here. It can be fixed in seconds...once I know.

#2. Perhaps you can elaborate as, er, I do not understand what you mean.

Frank

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cenonmin wrote:1) You get a focus rectangle when clicking the close button on a tab2) The status bar you get at the bottom when doing a page refresh does not format well or is not centered.

#1. This maybe related to an extension that you are using as I and others are not seeing this in Firefox 1.5 or 2.0. Please post a picture of your problem here. It can be fixed in seconds...once I know.

#2. Perhaps you can elaborate as, er, I do not understand what you mean.